International Small Business Journal

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The journal was founded in 1982, under the former name European Small Business Journal, but had been changed to the International Small Business Journal in 1983. It was founded and originally published by Clive Woodckck, a journalist for The Guardian . [1] [2] The papers published in the ISBJ are submitted by international academics (from a broad range of disciplines) covering theoretical, methodological and empirical studies of small firms. The ISBJ places emphasis on research excellence in the field of enquiry, to publish the highest quality original research papers, on small business and entrepreneurship. The ISBJ endeavours to provide a critical forum for world class contributions on the analysis of small firms as the articles in the ISBJ important to academics, policy makers, practitioners and analysts in government and organizations, seeking to understand small businesses, entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents, the Business Periodicals Index, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports , its 2022 impact factor is 7.1, ranking it 43rd out of 154 journals in the category "Business" [3] and 53rd out of 227 journals in the category "Management". [4]

Virtual Issues

The International Small Business Journal has brought together several collections of research, previously published in the journal, in 'virtual issues' centered on key themes in the field. Recent virtual issues include Female Entrepreneurship, which explores the journal's contribution to female entrepreneurship research [5] and Remembering Jason Cope which celebrates the life, and academic legacy, of the late entrepreneurship scholar. [6]

Best Paper Award

In 2008 The International Small Business Journal founded the ISBJ Best Paper Prize, which is awarded annually to the authors of one paper, published in the journal, in the year of the award. The papers are assessed in terms of "focus [...]; theoretical positioning; methodological rigour; policy and or practitioner implications; and interest for future research activity". [7] The ISBJ Best Paper Prize of is currently awarded to:

Alex Kevill, Kiran Trehan, Shelley Harrington and Selen Kars-Unluoglu (2021) for their paper on "Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation".

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References

  1. "Obituary: Clive Woodcock". The Guardian. 13 November 2001. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  2. Stanworth, John (1 February 2002). "Obituary: Clive Woodcock". International Small Business Journal. 20 (1): 7–8. doi:10.1177/0266242602201002. ISSN   0266-2426 . Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: business". 2023 Journal Citation Reports. 2023.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: management". 2023 Journal Citation Reports. 2023.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. Female Entrepreneurship
  6. Remembering Jason Cope
  7. "ISBJ Best Paper Prizes". Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  8. "International Small Business Journal". 28 October 2015.